Turbines – abrasive solutions for vanes, seals and housings

With our centre of excellence for the turbines industry, we at sia Abrasives are your experts for the surface treatment of blades and vanes and other turbine components including seals and housings – from production to repair.

We have many years of experience in the development and production of flexible high-tech abrasives tailored to the specific requirements of the turbines industry.

Fan blades, compressor blades, blades and vanes, titanium, superalloys and stainless steels – the sheer variety of blades and metallic materials used in aircraft engines and stationary gas turbines is formidable. The same can be said for the number of different surface finishing applications. A perfect finish can be achieved by multiple work steps involving deburring, matching, polishing and rounding-off of edges. This ensures that the aircraft engine or power supply will function perfectly even in extreme conditions.

Superalloys, in particular, are often the first choice for the construction of high-performance components such as power station turbines, aircraft engines or turbochargers. They are able to withstand extremely high temperatures and high mechanical stresses. Superalloys are among the most difficult materials to work. When it comes to superalloys, machine-cutting tools and abrasive systems have their limitations – the extreme stresses dramatically reduce the useful life of materials.

The high demands on each component part of a turbine therefore call for high-performance abrasives designed to provide maximum efficiency and durability. sia Abrasives has developed special solutions for the surface treatment of precision castings. With our range of coated abrasives, users in the turbines industry can be assured of an excellent finish with Swiss precision.

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Data protection policy of sia Abrasives Industries AG

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sia Abrasives Industries AG respects your privacy

The protection of your privacy in the processing of your personal data is an important concern to which we pay special attention during our business processes. We process personal data collected during your visit to our websites confidentially and solely in compliance with legal provisions.

Data protection and information security are part of our corporate policy.

Collection and processing of personal data

Personal data is only stored when voluntarily given by you for a determined purpose e.g. in context of a registration, a survey, a contest or in performance of a contract.

In addition the following information is collected when visiting our website: IP addresses, the website from which you visit us (referrer), pages viewed, files downloaded (downloads), videos viewed/audio tracks listened to, individual links clicked, search words or search phrases (site search), duration of visit, browser used, etc. If the visit is a result of online advertising such as banners, video ads, search engine advertising, etc., we also record which banner, adword, etc. motivated the visit to Sia Abrasives Industries AG websites.

The insights gained enable us to further optimize our websites and tailor them even better to our visitors‘ needs.

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Some Sia Abrasives Industries AG websites incorporate content and services from other providers (e.g. YouTube, Facebook, Google, Twitter) who, in turn, may use cookies and active components. Sia Abrasives Industries AG has no influence on the processing of personal data by these providers.

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Please refer to the respective provider‘s websites for information about how your data is handled.

The access data is collected in anonymized form so that it can no longer be traced back to a user. In particular, this is done by anonymizing the IP address.

Cookies are used for metrics to enable website use to be analyzed. In particular, Sia Abrasives Industries AG uses them to improve data quality. The information generated about the use of websites is transmitted to the statistics server (wts.sia Abrasives Industries AG.com) operated by Sia Abrasives Industries AG in Germany.

Only authorised persons have access to this anonymized data.

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If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to Facebook and declare your consent to the transmission of data to Facebook. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can associate the visit with your Facebook account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to Facebook by your browser and stored there.

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If you do not want Facebook to collect data about you via our website, you have to log out of Facebook before visiting our site.

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If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to Google and declare your consent to the transmission of data to Google. If you are logged into Google+, Google can associate the visit with your Google+ account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to Google by your browser and stored there.

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If you do not want Google to collect data about you via our website, you have to log out of Google+ before visiting our site.

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Sia Abrasives Industries AG websites use social plugins ("plugins") of the social network Twitter, which is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA ("Twitter"). The plugins are identified with a Twitter logo or the suffix "tweet".

If you visit a page on our website that contains such plugins, they are initially disabled. The plugins are not enabled until you click the button that is provided. By enabling the plugins, you establish the connection to Twitter and give your consent to the transmission of data to Twitter. If you are logged into Twitter, Twitter can associate the visit with your Twitter account. If you press the respective button, the corresponding information is transmitted directly to Twitter by your browser and stored there.

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Sia Abrasives Industries AG websites may contain links to third-party websites operated by providers that are not associated with us. After you click the link, we no longer have any influence over the collection, storage, or processing of any personal data transmitted by clicking the link (such as the IP address or URL of the page that contains the link), as the behaviour of third parties is, by nature, beyond our control. Therefore, Sia Abrasives Industries AG is not responsible for the processing of personal data by third parties.

Use of personal data and purpose specification

Sia Abrasives Industries AG or a service provider engaged by Sia Abrasives Industries AG uses your personal data for the purpose of technical administration of websites, customer administration, product surveys, enquiries you submit to Sia Abrasives Industries AG and only in the scope necessary for this purpose or according to the description of processing purposes given at the corresponding locations of our websites. Our employees and the service providers engaged by Sia Abrasives Industries AG are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the provisions of the German Federal Data Protection Act.

In addition, the compliance to all necessary technical and organizational measures will be ensured.

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You can also revoke your consent to the collection, processing, and use of your personal data for the future.

The personal data will be deleted if the consent for the storage will be revoked, if the knowledge of the personal data for the performance of the purpose is no longer necessary or if the storage of the personal data is inadmissible due to other legal reasons.

Data which is necessary for billing and accounting purposes or which is subject to the legal obligation to preserve is not affected.

Contact

To obtain more information or to submit suggestions or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our chief officer corporate data security.

If incorrect information has been stored despite our efforts to maintain correct and up-to-date data, we will correct this upon your request.